SCIENCE

NASA’s lunar orbiter has captured bright images of craters near the Moon’s south pole to have the presence of frost, said scientists who have studied the images. They combined surface temperatures with information about how much light is reflected off the Moons surface before arriving at the findings. “We found that the coldest places near the Moons south pole are ...

NASA’s first mission to go to the sun and make a suicidal plunge into the chimney-like star next year has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe honoring Eugene Parker who first theorized that the sun constantly sends out a flow of energy particles called the solar wind. This is the first time NASA named its mission after a living scientist. ...

SpaceX, US private space agency entrusted with cargo supply to International Space Station, will fly two private citizens on a trip around the Moon late next year, 2018. Without revealing their names, SpaceX said they have already paid a huge deposit for the Moon mission. SpaceX is currently undertaking an average of four Dragon 2 missions to the ISS per ...

SpaceX, US private space agency entrusted with cargo supply to International Space Station, will launch its 11th flight aboard the Dragon spacecraft to carry payload of resupply to the orbiting ISS tomorrow, June 1, 2017. The liftoff will be at 5:55 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the US space agency NASA said. ...

Remember the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident in the United States that had two nuclear plants and one of them was shut down immediately in 1979 but the other one was allowed to continue. Now even the second one will shut down in 2019, almost 40 years after, in view of financial constraints and no rescue plan coming ...

Scientists found a surprising relationships between fathers and their daughters compared to fathers and their sons. Dads are more responsive to daughters thean their toddler sons. Another striking behavioral trait found is their different language style. A report by the American Psychological Association based on a study of 52 fathers of young children, with 30 being fathers of girls and ...

ISRO New Workhorse GSLV-Mk III-D1 to Carry Heaviest 3136-kg GSAT-19 Satellite Indian Space research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its new workhorse GSLV-Mk III-D1 rocket on June 5, making it the heaviest rocket ever made by ISRO and capable of carrying huge payloads. GSAT-19 carries Ka/Ku-band high throughput communication transponders, a Geostationary Radiation Spectrometer (GRASP) to monitor charged particles and the ...

In the Neotropics, frogs with transparent skin are known and now researchers have discovered new species from Amazonian Ecuador, that fully expose its heart with the transparent skin all over its chest and tummy. The new amphibian is described by a team of scientists led by Dr. Juan M. Guayasamin, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, in the open access ...

An amazing newly-born baby girl started walking the moment he was off the nurse’s arm surprising the medical staff and a video of the feat started going viral on the Internet. The baby was holding the nurse’s arm and started moving around on its feet as if it was taught while in the womb. Usually babies take nine months to ...

Juno made its first scientific close-up, known as a ‘perijove’, on 27 August last year, spanning a few hours, when the spacecraft flew from the north pole to the south pole, dipping within 4000 km of the equatorial clouds and beneath Jupiter’s most intense and damaging radiation belts. The Juno team on Earth organized a campaign with astronomers using ...

Despite biggies like Google X have shelved the science fiction space elevator project, Japan’s Obayashi Corporation is planning to build the coveted future gateway to space for mankind by 2050 with a capacity to carry at least 100 travelers. A space elevator is conceived as a cable fixed to the equator and reaching into space with a counterweight at the ...

The world’s largest optical telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT), is being built in Chile which is emerging as the future capital of space monitoring infrastructure. The E-ELT will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world and will gather 13 times more light than the largest optical telescopes existing today. The E-ELT will be able to correct for ...

NASA’s Moon orbiting spacecraft Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) was a hit by a small meteoroid faster than the speed of a bullet but the camera survived though it is unclear whether the mission will face any other eventuality. From October 13, 2014, the US space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft suddenly started sending jarred pictures indicating that it could ...

NASA, ISRO, JAXA, or EPA — all space agencies vie for rare minerals whether it is tungsten on the moon or now the latest 16-Psyche asteroid full of iron and other metals worth $10,000 quadrillion compared to $72 trillion worth metals available now on Earth. However, NASA plans to look for outer planet resources though it is left to future ...

Storms associated with the advancing monsoon in the Northern Indian Ocean’s Bay of Bengal were detected by NASA with the GPM or Global Precipitation Measurement mission core satellite that passed over the Bay on May 23, 2017 at 0251 UTC. GPM is a joint satellite mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA. The GPM core observatory satellite ...

Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have completed the emergency repairs to the orbiting spacecraft and replace a failed computer on the outer side involving the unique spacewalk feat on Tuesday. Station’s Expedition 51 commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Jack Fischer installed a pair of wireless communications antennas onto the outside of the Destiny lab, during ...

NASA will undertake its an urgent repair work outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, May 23 with expedition 51 Commander Whitson and Flight Engineer Fischer replacing a malfunctioning computer relay box that failed three days ago. The box known as multiplexer-demultiplexer (MDM) is the only other unit that regulates the operation of radiators, solar arrays and cooling loops, ...

Based on the position of quasars, astronomers have prepared the first map of the universe large-scale structure of the universe. They have made use of the Sloan Foundation Telescope for two years and surveyed the universe under the project Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), enabling them measure three-dimensional positions of more than 147,000 quasars. Quasars ...

A new radiation-resistant bacteria found on the filters of the International Space Station (ISS) has been named ‘Solibacillus kalamii’ to honour the late Indian President, Dr Abdul Kalam. Dr Kalam was a renowned missile and space scientist and took his initial lessons in rocket technology at NASA in 1963 before India’s first rocket-launching facility was set up in Thumba in ...

Initially thought an “Alien Megastructure”, the recently named Tabby Star suddenly started dipping brightness that send the oberservs of the celestial body intrigued about its mystrious source of light and its fluctuations. Discovered by the NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, the KIC 8462852 has been named Tobby Star after Tabetha Boyajian, lead researcher of the team that observed the celestial body ...